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Word: windshield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place too great an importance on the foreign car switch may be a grave error. The one I purchased included extras such as windshield wipers which never worked, directional signals which didn't direct and foot pedals which were no larger than a Grade A egg. I now drive a finned Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...going to take your windshield off, it reduces drag considerably...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On Wheels | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

...stared at him for a moment and said, "It may reduce drag, but without the windshield dirt flies about my face and hands. The windshield remains where it is." Vag finished taping on the number...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: On Wheels | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

...real gripe," says Minneapolis Physician George Riley Martin, who swapped his 1954 Chevy for a small Simca, "is that American cars are getting too complicated. They're too full of gadgets that are always going wrong. My windshield wipers kept breaking, and they practically had to tear out the dashboard to get at the things. You're getting fins and chrome, and every time that you bash a fender a little bit, the whole side of the car has to be replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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